Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Article Writing -- Your Key to Success
By Patricia Ann Wagner
Have you wasted valuable time and money trying to promote your online business? If you've spent hard-earned cash buying ads on ezines or on websites, you may have been disappointed with the results.
There's a better way to advertise your business or website!
Article writing is for you if you want great benefits that don't cost anything.
By submitting quality articles you'll get lots of exposure and publicity -- without a financial investment! You've probably realized by now that the internet is about information, so content brings visitors to your site. That's a no-brainer!
Consider the possibilities of regularly writing for the internet.
Your work may be seen by millions. Articles written today can quickly appear on over 100 websites.
Search engines are constantly looking for new content to feed content-hungry readers. Why not yours?
By keeping your work before the public, your website will keep getting new visitors who become buyers. As your words are spread all over the internet, your targeted traffic will increase. That's how to reach lots of qualified buyers. Previous customers will be motivated to become repeat buyers.
By writing regularly, you can reach affiliates or joint venture partners who can help your sales' potential.
Your articles can be permanently displayed on the internet.
Your reputation can spread all over the internet and beyond. Think of the reach just one article can have!
Your influence could span the globe!
What you've written can show up in the most surprising places.
1. Your words may wind up on on a number of publishers' home pages.
2. You could get featured in a large ezine with thousands of subscribers.
3. Your work could be published in a book or in magazines.
4. An author may ask to use one or more of your articles in an e-book and you'll be credited.
5. You may get discovered and earn extra income through speaking engagements.
6. You may be given the opportunity to speak on radio shows.
7. You may even be interviewed for national newspapers.
You may not have to wait long before seeing amazing results.
As you submit your work to ezines and article directories, keep in mind that top-ranking sites are crawled by Google more often than other sites. When these sites publish your writing, you'll soon see results.
With each article you submit, your reputation will grow. After you've submitted twenty or so, you may become a household name -- at no charge to you!
An author's works are often kept permanently on websites, so one keyword-rich article can bring thousands of hits for years to come.
Articles not only build your reputation, but are the best way to raise your search engine ranking.
Reciprocal linking is viewed as less important to Google than one-way linking. If numerous sites point to your website without you linking back, Google rewards you with a higher rank.
You get back links automatically by submitting articles and you don't even have to bother with link exchanges to increase rankings. You also don't have to worry about Google's ever-changing algorithm changes that can dump your website several pages down in one day.
Your published works prove you're an expert -- at least in the eyes of readers who view you as knowledgeable. You also establish credibility and trust. Your words can create your own brand for your website and business.
The written word has clout, so you can clinch your point.
Writing brings personal satisfaction.
There's a great sense of accomplishment from sharing your expertise with the online community.
Real people are sitting behind computers in their homes or offices reading what you've written. Through the right words you can build rapport with them.
You'll probably get emails from time to time telling how something you wrote helped someone. And that's satisfying!
So there you have it --
Writing articles can open surprising doors to success!
Authors, submit your articles to Content Corral Article Directory. Webmaster Patricia Wagner is also an artist. View landscape art at her online gallery.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Patricia_Ann_Wagner
Have you wasted valuable time and money trying to promote your online business? If you've spent hard-earned cash buying ads on ezines or on websites, you may have been disappointed with the results.
There's a better way to advertise your business or website!
Article writing is for you if you want great benefits that don't cost anything.
By submitting quality articles you'll get lots of exposure and publicity -- without a financial investment! You've probably realized by now that the internet is about information, so content brings visitors to your site. That's a no-brainer!
Consider the possibilities of regularly writing for the internet.
Your work may be seen by millions. Articles written today can quickly appear on over 100 websites.
Search engines are constantly looking for new content to feed content-hungry readers. Why not yours?
By keeping your work before the public, your website will keep getting new visitors who become buyers. As your words are spread all over the internet, your targeted traffic will increase. That's how to reach lots of qualified buyers. Previous customers will be motivated to become repeat buyers.
By writing regularly, you can reach affiliates or joint venture partners who can help your sales' potential.
Your articles can be permanently displayed on the internet.
Your reputation can spread all over the internet and beyond. Think of the reach just one article can have!
Your influence could span the globe!
What you've written can show up in the most surprising places.
1. Your words may wind up on on a number of publishers' home pages.
2. You could get featured in a large ezine with thousands of subscribers.
3. Your work could be published in a book or in magazines.
4. An author may ask to use one or more of your articles in an e-book and you'll be credited.
5. You may get discovered and earn extra income through speaking engagements.
6. You may be given the opportunity to speak on radio shows.
7. You may even be interviewed for national newspapers.
You may not have to wait long before seeing amazing results.
As you submit your work to ezines and article directories, keep in mind that top-ranking sites are crawled by Google more often than other sites. When these sites publish your writing, you'll soon see results.
With each article you submit, your reputation will grow. After you've submitted twenty or so, you may become a household name -- at no charge to you!
An author's works are often kept permanently on websites, so one keyword-rich article can bring thousands of hits for years to come.
Articles not only build your reputation, but are the best way to raise your search engine ranking.
Reciprocal linking is viewed as less important to Google than one-way linking. If numerous sites point to your website without you linking back, Google rewards you with a higher rank.
You get back links automatically by submitting articles and you don't even have to bother with link exchanges to increase rankings. You also don't have to worry about Google's ever-changing algorithm changes that can dump your website several pages down in one day.
Your published works prove you're an expert -- at least in the eyes of readers who view you as knowledgeable. You also establish credibility and trust. Your words can create your own brand for your website and business.
The written word has clout, so you can clinch your point.
Writing brings personal satisfaction.
There's a great sense of accomplishment from sharing your expertise with the online community.
Real people are sitting behind computers in their homes or offices reading what you've written. Through the right words you can build rapport with them.
You'll probably get emails from time to time telling how something you wrote helped someone. And that's satisfying!
So there you have it --
Writing articles can open surprising doors to success!
Authors, submit your articles to Content Corral Article Directory. Webmaster Patricia Wagner is also an artist. View landscape art at her online gallery.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Patricia_Ann_Wagner
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Federico Garcia Lorca
By Mike McDougall
Born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer and a school teacher mother. It was from Lorca’s mother that he took most influence in early life – she taught him to play music and sing – skills that would lay the foundations for the poet’s sense of rhythm and timing. In 1909 the family moved into Grenada where he would later mingle in artistic circles and wield a great influence amongst his peers. He first studied law at Grenada before moving to university in Madrid to the famous “Residencia de estudiantes” in 1919.
One year earlier, Lorca had his first collections of poems published, entitled “Impresiones y paisajes”. It enjoyed critical acclaim without much commercial success. However, now in Madrid, Lorca was to make friends with a great many influential young Spanish artists, two of the most notable being Salvadore Dalí who needs little introduction, and Luis Buñel, the groundbreaking film maker, who Lorca was to become great friends with. 1919 also saw Lorca get his first break on the stage; he wrote and staged his first play: “El Melefico de la Mariposa”. It didn’t go too well and was laughed off the stage after four shows; the incident was to sour Lorca’s feelings towards the theatre going public forever.
During the twenties, Lorca improved as a poet and playwright and became increasingly involved in the “avant garde” movement becoming a key member of “generation of 27”, a group of poets and artists keen to employ the latest techniques and theories to their medium. In this period he published another three anthologies of poetry including, probably his most well known work, “Romancero Gitano” in 1928. His second play, “Mariana Pineda” had also opened to great acclaim in 1927.
Behind his public success Lorca was struggling to keep his private life together and experienced extreme bouts of depression during this period. His friendship with Buñel and Dali was becoming strained and his attempts to hide his homosexuality from his family were becoming increasingly thin-veiled. During this period his turbulent and often one-sided relationship with sculptor Emilio Alandrén was also collapsing, adding to Lorca’s torments.
In 1930, Lorca left Spain for the USA in order to study English at Columbia University. Lorca was somewhat let down by his first experience of a modern democracy, America’s rampant commercialism and discrimination of minority groups provided Lorca with the fuel to produce some of his most challenging work. His poetry anthology “Poeta en Nueva York” and his play “El Publico” were both penned whilst Lorca was in the USA; indeed, “El Publico” wasn’t to see the light of day until the 1970’s due to the repression of his work under Franco’s dictatorship.
Garcia Lorca’s return to Spain in 1931 coincided with the fall of the Prima Rivera dictatorship and the reestablishment of the Spanish republic. Lorca was asked to head-up a government sponsored theatre company, aimed at bringing classic theatre to rural Spain. During this period Lorca created his celebrated “rural trilogy” of plays: “Bodas de Sangre”, “Yerma” and “La Casa de Bernada Alba”.
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was to mean an untimely end for Garcia Lorca. Ultimately an independent and free-thinking artist, the specific reasons for his murder still remain something of a mystery. We do know that he left for Granada in 1936 where he was arrested and later murdered by Falangists (who would later go on to commit some of the greatest atrocities of the war) and thrown into an unmarked grave in or around Viznar, near Granada. Andalusia was the main stronghold of the nationalist movement and some maintain that when Lorca set out to Granada, it was more than likely he knew he’d never return alive, especially as his brother in law was the Socialist mayor of Grenada at the time.
Lorca was to become one of the great martyrs of the Civil War and in many respects epitomised the free-thinking opposition to Franco’s regime. Franco himself wouldn’t want to hear mention of the author or the circumstances of his death so Lorca’s full oeuvre hasn’t really been in print for much more than 25 years.
His undoubted talents place him in the same bracket as Cervantes and he has gone on to become Spain’s most influential literary figure of the 20th century despite his untimely and, ultimately premature, death at the age of 38.
Mike McDougall has five years experience working as a travel writer and marketeer. He is currently working to provide additional content for Babylon-idiomas, a Spanish language school with an excellent presence in Spain and Latin America.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mike_McDougall
Born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer and a school teacher mother. It was from Lorca’s mother that he took most influence in early life – she taught him to play music and sing – skills that would lay the foundations for the poet’s sense of rhythm and timing. In 1909 the family moved into Grenada where he would later mingle in artistic circles and wield a great influence amongst his peers. He first studied law at Grenada before moving to university in Madrid to the famous “Residencia de estudiantes” in 1919.
One year earlier, Lorca had his first collections of poems published, entitled “Impresiones y paisajes”. It enjoyed critical acclaim without much commercial success. However, now in Madrid, Lorca was to make friends with a great many influential young Spanish artists, two of the most notable being Salvadore Dalí who needs little introduction, and Luis Buñel, the groundbreaking film maker, who Lorca was to become great friends with. 1919 also saw Lorca get his first break on the stage; he wrote and staged his first play: “El Melefico de la Mariposa”. It didn’t go too well and was laughed off the stage after four shows; the incident was to sour Lorca’s feelings towards the theatre going public forever.
During the twenties, Lorca improved as a poet and playwright and became increasingly involved in the “avant garde” movement becoming a key member of “generation of 27”, a group of poets and artists keen to employ the latest techniques and theories to their medium. In this period he published another three anthologies of poetry including, probably his most well known work, “Romancero Gitano” in 1928. His second play, “Mariana Pineda” had also opened to great acclaim in 1927.
Behind his public success Lorca was struggling to keep his private life together and experienced extreme bouts of depression during this period. His friendship with Buñel and Dali was becoming strained and his attempts to hide his homosexuality from his family were becoming increasingly thin-veiled. During this period his turbulent and often one-sided relationship with sculptor Emilio Alandrén was also collapsing, adding to Lorca’s torments.
In 1930, Lorca left Spain for the USA in order to study English at Columbia University. Lorca was somewhat let down by his first experience of a modern democracy, America’s rampant commercialism and discrimination of minority groups provided Lorca with the fuel to produce some of his most challenging work. His poetry anthology “Poeta en Nueva York” and his play “El Publico” were both penned whilst Lorca was in the USA; indeed, “El Publico” wasn’t to see the light of day until the 1970’s due to the repression of his work under Franco’s dictatorship.
Garcia Lorca’s return to Spain in 1931 coincided with the fall of the Prima Rivera dictatorship and the reestablishment of the Spanish republic. Lorca was asked to head-up a government sponsored theatre company, aimed at bringing classic theatre to rural Spain. During this period Lorca created his celebrated “rural trilogy” of plays: “Bodas de Sangre”, “Yerma” and “La Casa de Bernada Alba”.
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was to mean an untimely end for Garcia Lorca. Ultimately an independent and free-thinking artist, the specific reasons for his murder still remain something of a mystery. We do know that he left for Granada in 1936 where he was arrested and later murdered by Falangists (who would later go on to commit some of the greatest atrocities of the war) and thrown into an unmarked grave in or around Viznar, near Granada. Andalusia was the main stronghold of the nationalist movement and some maintain that when Lorca set out to Granada, it was more than likely he knew he’d never return alive, especially as his brother in law was the Socialist mayor of Grenada at the time.
Lorca was to become one of the great martyrs of the Civil War and in many respects epitomised the free-thinking opposition to Franco’s regime. Franco himself wouldn’t want to hear mention of the author or the circumstances of his death so Lorca’s full oeuvre hasn’t really been in print for much more than 25 years.
His undoubted talents place him in the same bracket as Cervantes and he has gone on to become Spain’s most influential literary figure of the 20th century despite his untimely and, ultimately premature, death at the age of 38.
Mike McDougall has five years experience working as a travel writer and marketeer. He is currently working to provide additional content for Babylon-idiomas, a Spanish language school with an excellent presence in Spain and Latin America.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mike_McDougall
Labels: Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, Spanish poetry, Spanish writer
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Desperate Housewife Triumphs Through Poetry Writing
By Ruth Garnes
Fantasy/Controversy or My Reality is triumph over the desperate house wife syndrome. After Ruth Garnes walked away from a fulfilling career to become a fulltime wife and mother, she claimed that she momentarily became a desperate house wife. Not wanting her chore filled day and disappointments to over take her she started to express herself in verse.
“My life as an individual was not only about caring for seven children. It was also about my dreams and aspirations. I wanted and needed a life that was about love and laughter and most of all triumph over challenges,” says Mrs. Garnes. As a young woman I worked to put myself through college. The road to becoming a nurse was not easy but I attained that goal. Why should I now allow the challenge of rearing seven children to defeat me?”
This is what Fantasy/Controversy or My Reality is about. Triumph in the face of difficulties, finding joy inspite of pain. We all have had to over-come something; this is what makes Fantasy/Controversy or My Reality appealing to all. It is available on line from Barnes & Noble, Amazon or the publisher; Publish America. For more information about the author visit her web-site at http://home.earthlink.net/~rgarnes/
Ruth Andrews Garnes was born in Belize the second of six children. She moved to New York City at age eighteen. After studying nursing she worked in the emergency room in Bellevue Hospital. She currently resides with her husband and seven children in the Houston Texas area. Having always had a heart for hurting children she adopted four sisters. Through her writings she hopes to be able to make a difference to hurting children everywhere by giving a voice to their struggles.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ruth_Garnes
